The Macho Male Motown Singer

A bellow. A shout. A scream, a growl, a grunt. Each Motown singer below turned such sounds into music.

Sometimes singing represented hard work, the sweat-inducing kind. Or an extension of a personality. Or the result of informal practices between bites of a sandwich. ;)

In any case, instead of making our eardrums bleed, vocal volume and texture can create genuine, unmatched emotion when it comes from the right singers.

Some of them appear here.

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The Macho Male Motown Singer